Lifeskills - Learning for living is a permanent, regional safety education and training centre, built as a realistic 'village' on the 4th floor of the CREATE centre, Hotwells Bristol.
Lifeskills is designed to help children and other members of the community learn about safety in a fun and practical way, specifically in the home, on the road or during leisure time.
Lifeskills bridges the gap, which often exists between knowledge and behaviour. The Lifeskills approach is both interactive and 'hands on'.
The village has a supermarket, houses, a garage (used for drug education) road and vehicles, garden, electric substation, building site, playground, stream, railway, farm and countryside. Sound effects bring the village to life.
All 'year 6' children within B&NES have the opportunity to visit lifeskills and undertake realistic safety education in a safe environment.
In addition the centre runs two further programmes:
Falls Prevention and Home Safety
The Lifeskills Safety, education and training programme uses a number of sets around the centre to give information on falls prevention.
Safety in the home, personal safety, diet, exercise, fire safety and road safety.
This programme enables ongoing access to the lifeskills centre for young people and adults with learning difficulties who live independently or are working towards living independently through the development of a targeted safety education programme.